Urban Age

Developing Urban Futures

Urban Age Conference, Addis Ababa, November 2018

The 17th Urban Age conference focused on the development of cities in rapidly urbanising countries, convening urban experts, policymakers and practitioners from sub-Saharan Africa and other world cities.

Shaping Cities in an Urban Age

An authorative publication to inspire the city-makers who are shaping our increasingly urban world.

Shaping Cities in an Urban Age is the third in the series. Previous titles include Living in the Endless City (2011) and The Endless City (2007).

Urban Age

The Urban Age Programme, jointly organised with the Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft, is an international investigation of the spatial and social dynamics of cities centred on an annual conference, research initiative and publication. Since 2005, 17 conferences have been held in rapidly urbanising regions in Africa and Asia, as well as in mature urban regions in the Americas and Europe. As an event, the Urban Age catalyses the exchange of information, experiences and data across a global network of cities. The conferences operate as mobile laboratories, testing and sampling the social and physical characteristics of global cities through expert presentations and testimonials, research, site visits, mapping and informal information exchange.